Flippant Sol wrote:The only chance we'll ever see a new Marathon game is if Bungie were to give the IP to someone else, and they were to decide to do something with it. Until then, and if then, it is the sole responsibility of the fans to create new experiences and adventures in the Marathon universe. At this projection, I claim that the Marathon fandom will go the way of the dodo by 2024.

I wouldn't mind another company doing a Marathon reboot as long as they were true to the source material. However, I can't think of a single developer at the moment that makes good FPS. Maybe modern id? Doom 4 was alright, if a bit tedious at times.

I imagine that a fourth Marathon would at least be better than Marathon: Courier 11 or Marathon: By Jove, Jeeves!. That is some thin fucking soup, folks, thin fucking soup. I still like them though, and if a fourth Marathon helps trickle a few more enthusiastic new fans into the meatserver so we can keep going Gangbusters (as Windbreaker would say) for a while longer, that seems worth any potential lameness.

Flippant Sol wrote:The only chance we'll ever see a new Marathon game is if Bungie were to give the IP to someone else, and they were to decide to do something with it. Until then, and if then, it is the sole responsibility of the fans to create new experiences and adventures in the Marathon universe. At this projection, I claim that the Marathon fandom will go the way of the dodo by 2024.

I wouldn't mind another company doing a Marathon reboot as long as they were true to the source material. However, I can't think of a single developer at the moment that makes good FPS. Maybe modern id? Doom 4 was alright, if a bit tedious at times.

I'd almost be fine with Marathon NOT being an FPS. Since it's the story I care the most about, I think a company (and this is very much wishful thinking) like From Software (Dark Souls, Bloodborne) has the right ideas on how to integrate storytelling into the gameplay. A 3rd person game would be fine with me at this point, I don't think it being an FPS would be necessary to preserve what Marathon is about; there's only so much that can be done with FPSs anymore, so I don't know how much that format would be beneficial.

To elaborate further: the S'pht were trying to gain administrative rights and network access while hogging the CPU, BOBs are using a GUI interface, Tycho is backing himself up, and Durandal is writing something massive in a text editor. Also, before copying the Marine, Leela searches for it and finds two copies, one in the trash (dead), one in the pattern buffer.